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"The essays collected in this book are sparkling, imaginative pieces of journalism that just happen to be about technology. People steeped in the world of AJAX or Massively Mulitplayer Online Games will find a lot to value here, but so will readers...

In a society that breathlessly awaits "the new" in every medium, what happens to last year's new? Ample critical energy has gone into the study of new media, genres, and communities. But what becomes of discarded media? In what manner do the products of...

Today, the finite element method (FEM) has become a common tool for solving engineering problems in many industries for the obvious reasons of its versatility and affordability. This book contains materials applied to mechanical engineering, civil...

This work highlights the new challenges facing the French wine industry and the issues that arise from it. Written on the basis of academic work and field studies, conducted by a group of Montpellier academics in Economics and Management Sciences (Groupe...

This rigorous yet accessible textbook provides broad and systematic coverage of linear multivariable control systems, including several new approaches to design. In addition to standard state space theory, it provides a new measurement-based approach to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780666344182Author Unknown AuthorFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604271843Author Frederick BloetscherFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint J Ross PublishingPublisher J Ross PublishingWeight(grams) 333g

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art. Volume 7: Long and Deep Tunnels contains the contributions presented in the eponymous Technical Session during the World Tunnel Congress 2019 (Naples,...

Plant polyphenols are specialized metabolites that constitute one of the most common and widespread groups of natural products. They are essential plant components for adaptation to the environment and possess a large and diverse range of biological...

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF FUNCTIONAL FOOD Comprehensive resource for understanding state-of-the-art mechanisms behind food health effects This book provides information on the development and validation of functional foods towards their market and...

Jill Hills picks up from her pathbreaking study The Struggle for Control of Global Communication: The Formative Century to continue her examination of the political, technological, and economic forces at work in the global telecommunications market from...

This monograph provides an overview of the principles required for a service orientation in the management of irrigation and drainage systems. The material covered is designed to emphasize an area largely neglected in the irrigation and drainage...

Focusing on passive intermodulation (PIM), a common instance of distortion in high-power multi-channel communication systems, the book introduces the concepts and technology of PIM.In the context of "space-ground-object" integrated communication and...

Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are buzzwords in the business literature these days, yet few realize that it was these elements that helped the United States first emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World...

CONTEMPORARY PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, 3/e is the most up-to-date, evidence-based, culturally competent, authoritative, and comprehensive resource for psychiatric-mental health nursing. The authors emphasize the importance of empathy and client...

The Hellenistic city of New Halos, situated on the coastal route between North and Central Greece, existed for only a short period (ca 302-265 BC) before being destroyed by an earthquake and finally abandoned. The city's original ninety-thousand...

Basic Approach/Summary For preservice and inservice teachers studying the historical and philosophical foundations of education. An anthology of primary sources that explores the philosophy of teaching and learning through a wide variety of viewpoints...

In September 2018, the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations acknowledged that international instability is increasing and that improving global security is among the most important tasks facing the world today. The Assembly concluded that it is...

Until now, information on the dynamic loading of structures has been widely scattered. No other book has examined the different types of loading in a comprehensive and systematic manner, and looked at their signficance in the design process. The book...

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art. Volume 9: Safety in Underground Construction contains the contributions presented in the eponymous Technical Session during the World Tunnel Congress 2019...

For all courses in medical. This is a true introductory-level "essentials" text focusing solely on medical terminology, and on teaching students how to build and translate medical terms with confidence. Designed to be fun, accessible, and eye-catching,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875801544Author Joseph BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams)...

Improve: The Next Generation of Continuous Improvement for Knowledge Work presents lean thinking for professionals, those who Peter Drucker called knowledge workers. It translates the brilliant insights from Toyota's factory floor to the desktops of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542586Author Eric S. HintzFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The increasing number of dams built in the last century has underlined the necessity of these constructions to the all-round development of a country. The advent of rock mechanics, engineering geology and a better understanding of materials have made it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194759300Author Ravi Prakash AryaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Indian Foundation for Vedic SciencePublisher Indian Foundation for Vedic...

This text is written by a number of authors from different countries and disciplines, affording the reader an invaluable and unbiased perspective on the subject of intensive groundwater development. Based on information gathered from the experience of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956407382Author Henry L. GreenlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Camden Miniature Steam ServicesPublisher Camden Miniature Steam Services

Awarded a Certificate of Merit at the ARSC Awards for Excellence 2018 In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think about, make and use popular music. From the production of multimillion selling pop records...

Dive into the foundations of intelligent systems, machine learning, and control with this hands-on, project-based introductory textbook. Precise, clear introductions to core topics in fuzzy logic, neural networks, optimization, deep learning, and machine...

An engrossing look at the history and importance of a centuries-old but still unanswered math problemFor centuries, mathematicians the world over have tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem. Math genius Leonhard Euler attempted it in the 1700s...

A guide to the fundamentals of applied gas chromatography and the process gas chromatograph, with practical procedures for design and troubleshooting This comprehensive resource provides the theory that underpins a full understanding of the fundamental...

Principles and Practice of Big Data: Preparing, Sharing, and Analyzing Complex Information, Second Edition updates and expands on the first edition, bringing a set of techniques and algorithms that are tailored to Big Data projects. The book stresses the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615565033Author Ltd Apc InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Apc International, Ltd.Publisher Apc International, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542265Author Ainissa RamirezFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127048Author Lewis DartnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm...

There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates-be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel-a rotational mechanism that accomplishes what our...

Engineers must make decisions regarding the distribution of expensive resources in a manner that will be economically beneficial. This problem can be realistically formulated and logically analyzed with optimization theory. This book shows engineers how...

Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Sixth Edition, uniquely emphasizes how probability informs statistical problems, thus helping readers develop an intuitive understanding of the statistical procedures commonly used...

American Genesis is the book that helped earn Thomas Hughes his reputation as one of the foremost historians of technology of our age. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, the book tells the sweeping story of America's technological revolution...